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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

skynews.com

The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

627 ms

Page Rendered

516 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Sky News content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about skynews.com

Sky News delivers breaking news, headlines and top stories from business, politics, entertainment and more in the UK and worldwide.

Visit skynews.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Skynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skynews.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value700 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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185 ms

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Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Skynews.com, 87% (116 requests) were made to E3.365dm.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to News.sky.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (337 ms) relates to the external source Components.news.sky.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (20%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skynews.com main page is 5.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 301.3 kB

  • Original 339.5 kB
  • After minification 241.8 kB
  • After compression 38.1 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 97.7 kB, which is 29% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 301.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 824.9 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 4.5 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, Sky News needs image optimization as it can save up to 824.9 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 174.2 kB
  • After minification 174.2 kB
  • After compression 153.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 21.0 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 132 B

  • Original 15.1 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 14.9 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Skynews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (5%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

126

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sky News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

skynews.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

skynews.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

skynews.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Skynews.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Skynews.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

skynews.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Sky News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: